#p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #teaparty #union #iww #occupy #ows Army defector’s photos encourage greater US role in Syria http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/07/syria-prisoners-assad-regime-caesar-photos-brutality-abuse.html# A Syrian army defector’s photos of emaciated and brutalized corpses drew bipartisan calls for greater US involvement during a House hearing on Thursday. The anonymous military photographer known as “Caesar” appeared before the House Foreign Affairs Committee cloaked in a blue hoodie alongside several advocates of greater US involvement in Syria's 3-year-old civil war. He told lawmakers that 150,000 people remain in Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s prisons and urged the Obama administration and Congress to do all they can to end the slaughter in Syria...